--- title: "QJs vs T8s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-t8s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-t8s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QJs is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 65.18% to 34.82% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-t9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-98s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-t8s.md"] --- # QJs vs T8s: preflop equity QJs is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 65.18% to 34.82% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If QJs and T8s get all the chips in before the flop, QJs owns 65.18% of the pot in the long run and T8s owns 34.82%. ## QJs against T8s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QJs against T8s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 64.712 | 0.932 | 34.356 | 65.178 | | T8s | 34.356 | 0.932 | 64.712 | 34.822 | QJs and T8s are both suited hands. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. That is a clear edge, 65.18% to 34.82%, but T8s still wins often enough that one hand proves nothing. Ties are part of the picture: 0.93% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. Ranked by equity against a random hand, QJs is number 28 of the 169 starting hands and T8s is number 73. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 17,729,000 | 255,000 | 9,412,000 | | T8s | 9,412,000 | 255,000 | 17,729,000 | Exact total: 16 deals times 1,712,304 boards. The other three counts come from the five-decimal percentages and are rounded to the nearest thousand, so read them as approximate. **QJs against T8s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 1.872 | 1.545 | 2.911 | 0.534 | | T8s | 0.534 | 2.911 | 1.545 | 1.872 | The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Break the boards down by their first three cards and QJs is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (69.46%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (54.04%). QJs stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **QJs against T8s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QJs wins | Ties | T8s wins | QJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 69.234 | 0.450 | 30.316 | 69.459 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 53.719 | 0.633 | 45.648 | 54.035 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 64.447 | 0.448 | 35.105 | 64.671 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 60.113 | 3.530 | 36.357 | 61.878 | | Paired | 17.091 | 65.068 | 2.250 | 32.682 | 66.193 | Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank. ## Compared with a random hand How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 60.26%, QJs changes by +4.92 points, and T8s, from 52.33%, by -17.51. **QJs and T8s here compared with each against a random hand, in percent** | Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs, all flops | 65.178 | 60.259 | +4.919 | 1.08163 | | QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.459 | 60.259 | +9.200 | 1.15267 | | QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 54.035 | 60.259 | -6.224 | 0.89671 | | QJs, two-tone | 64.671 | 60.259 | +4.412 | 1.07322 | | QJs, monotone | 61.878 | 60.259 | +1.619 | 1.02687 | | QJs, paired | 66.193 | 60.259 | +5.934 | 1.09847 | | T8s, all flops | 34.822 | 52.334 | -17.512 | 0.66538 | | T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.541 | 52.334 | -21.793 | 0.58358 | | T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 45.965 | 52.334 | -6.369 | 0.87830 | | T8s, two-tone | 35.329 | 52.334 | -17.005 | 0.67507 | | T8s, monotone | 38.122 | 52.334 | -14.212 | 0.72844 | | T8s, paired | 33.807 | 52.334 | -18.527 | 0.64599 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 67.77% for QJs with a shared suit and 64.31% without one. QJs does better with a shared suit, by 3.46 points. **QJs against T8s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QJs wins | Ties | T8s wins | QJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 67.259 | 1.029 | 31.712 | 67.773 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 63.863 | 0.899 | 35.238 | 64.312 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 16 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0010% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 32, or 0.0020%. ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: QJs averages $130.36 back, ahead of its $100 by $30.36, while T8s averages $69.64, short of its $100 by $30.36. Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 647 for QJs, 344 for T8s and 9 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for T8s against QJs, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 34.82% and 65.18%. ## Keep exploring QsJs against Th8h is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength. - [Open QsJs against Th8h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsJs&p2=Th8h) - [QJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjs.md) - [T8s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t8s.md) - [QJs vs T9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-t9o.md) - [QJs vs 98s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-98s.md) - [K9s vs T8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-t8s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 16 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [QJs vs T9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-t9o.md) - [QJs vs 98s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-98s.md) - [K9s vs T8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-t8s.md)